I am a paleoanthropologist & the Donald N. Pritzker Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, at the University of Chicago. I previously held senior positions at the California Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Institute & Arizona State University. Featured among my discoveries are the skeleton of Selam (the earliest child) and the earliest evidence for stone tool use in the human lineage. I am an elected member of the Pontifical Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the California Academy of Sciences. My research work is widely published in prominent journals including Nature, Science, PNAS and distributed to the public through PBS-NOVA, CNN, BBC, National Geographic: (Website: https://alemsegedlab.uchicago.edu/).
